Category: Science

BERLIN — Archaeologists have finally determined which weapon caused mysterious square holes in the skulls of soldiers who died in the 1361 Battle of Visby.

A push to raise the minimum age for social media and other online services is gaining momentum, beginning with Australia , which recently banned those

Necrotizing enterocolitis strikes premature babies with almost no warning. A new approach aims to detect it early with a quick, low-risk scan.

In fiction, photographic memories crack the case or save the day. But our brains can’t hold on to everything — and that’s a good thing.

People with a rare disorder that causes excessive burping may benefit from an unlikely treatment: singing therapy. A new study suggests that this singing approach

BERLIN — A Roman-era mass grave discovered underneath a soccer field near Vienna holds the skeletons of young men from all over the Roman Empire

Brazil is home to some of the world’s largest aquifers, yet many of those groundwater stores — which provide 55% of the country’s water —

An unassuming, brownish stone may be one of the most precious objects on Earth. The rare rock, called Teghaza 001, is a piece of ancient

A dog-sized carnivore and mammal ancestor that lived around 236 million years ago seems to have given birth to live young, a new study suggests.

Deep-sea divers take careful measures to avoid “the bends,” a painful condition where gas bubbles form in divers’ blood and tissues when they ascend from

Long-term memories may not “stick” in the brain for the reasons we thought, a study of mice in artificial hibernation reveals. Instead of relying on

Losing mature trees from a neighborhood may be a matter of life and death, a new study suggests. The research, published Aug. 5 in the

Between outbreaks of explosive diarrhea leading to nationwide lettuce recalls and cases of Salmonella tied to eggs and jalapeños, foodborne diseases in the United States

Gluons do more than hold protons together. They may also help define the proton’s identity through a quantum property called baryon number.